Hello all,
After accidentally hijacking a thread of a OG supporter with this topic, I wanted to give it its own thread.
By reading a bit about plant breeding and plant genetics that is not specific oriented to cannabis, I noticed that for other plants, the provenance, history and important info about specific cultivars is much more available, and they have guidelines and passports for all common plant types, here is a “MULTI-CROP PASSPORT DESCRIPTOR” for grapes:
http://www.eu-vitis.de/docs/descriptors/mcpd/MCPD-for-Grapevine-10Feb12.pdf
For those that don’t want to open this link I have copied some of the info that is required in the plant passport:
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- Accession name (ACCENAME) Example: Rheinische Vorgebirgstrauben;Emma;Avlon
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- Acquisition date (ACQDATE)
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- Country of origin (ORIGCTY)
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- Location of collecting site (COLLSITE) Example: 7 km south of Curitiba in the state of Parana
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- Latitude of collecting site (LATITUDE) Example: 011530N
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- Longitude of collecting site (LONGITUDE) Example: 076----W
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- Elevation of collecting site (ELEVATION)
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- Collecting date of sample (COLLDATE)
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- Breeding institute code (BREDCODE)
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- Biological status of accession (SAMPSTAT)
Wild
Natural
Semi-natural/wild
Weedy
Traditional cultivar/landrace
Breeding/research material
Breeder’s line
Synthetic population
Hybrid
Founder stock/base population
Inbred line (parent of hybrid cultivar)
Segregating population
Mutant/genetic stock
Advanced/improved cultivar
- Biological status of accession (SAMPSTAT)
- Ancestral data (ANCEST) Information about either pedigree or other description of ancestral information (i.e. parent variety in case of mutant or selection). Example: mutation found in Hanna Example: selection from Irene
And there are MUCH more, but I personally found these the most relevant.
How nice would it be to have this level of information about our favourite strains?
Something to think about.
Cheers,
eS